170 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
the sincerity of their lovers by placing in the hollow 
of the palm of the left hand a petal or flower-leaf, of 
the Poppy, which, on being struck by the other 
hand, was broken with a sharp sound, which denoted 
true attachment, but faithlessness when it failed to 
snap. 
By a prophetic Poppy leaf I found 
Your changed affection, for it gave no sound, 
Though in my hand struck hollow as it lay ; 
But quickly withered, like your love, away. 
